Minor earthquake, 3.07 mag has occurred near Magna in Utah

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.07 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Magna in Utah. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/03/20 / 2020-03-19 02:34:19 / March 19, 2020 @ 2:34 am. Exact location, longitude -112.0626678° West, latitude 40.7464981° North, depth = 9.61 km. The temblor was reported at 19:34:19 / 7:34 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: uu60365717. Event ids that are associated: uu60365717. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.61 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 15 km (9 miles) from Salt Lake City (c. 186 400 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from West Valley City (c. 129 500 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Provo (c. 112 500 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from West Jordan (c. 103 700 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Sandy Hills (c. 89 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Spanish Fork, Springville, Provo.

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-four, in the last 10 days thirty-four, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 5 km NE of Magna, Utah.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.07 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-112.0626678° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.7464981° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.61 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km NE of Magna, Utah	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-03-19 02:34:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-03-19 02:45:01	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	45	The total number of felt reports
CDI	5.3	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.92	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	automatic	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	169	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	uu	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,uu,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	65	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1036	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.23 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	46	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	uu60365717	Id of event.
Event Code	60365717	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uu60365717,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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